Guys, I am going to trust Jiraiya and Mari-sensei on this one.
Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
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- naruto rationalist romance armageddon is looking better and better damn you kishimoto explosions everywhere explosives solve everyone if in doubt surrender to the mercy of zabuza it seemed like a good idea at the time looks like a really bad case of being a jōnin my god. where does the lore end? precommitting is the winning plan screaming in kagome screw the rules i have explosives something bad might still happen sometimes you gotta sociopath stabby zabby subsection c of paragraph 9 should include we can weaponize this so hard
Guys, I am going to trust Jiraiya and Mari-sensei on this one.
Given the way that Minami described the Nara and Jiraiya described Shikaku, I think we should place most of our bets on option B).
- Location
- France
Alien, get out. This chapter was clearly dedicated to Firefly! Yeah!
The worldshaking revelations were nice and all, and the information about Keiko's reaction to Shikaku's speech was good to have, and the "Mari-sensei cooking thing" was funny, but what really stuck with me was THE GORRAM FIREFLY REFERENCE. And it was so perfectly used too...
Anyway, back on topic: does this mean that Hanzo is going to use firearms with the same trigger-happy attitude Mal does?
I think you're not looking at the costs of different conversational strategies. Sure Shikaku could have made Hazou feel, er, "on-balance". He could have done at the cost of being able to cover less ground during the conversation. Getting less information across. Not doing as deep a dive into the things he wanted to talk about. Not acting in such a way as to encourage Hazou to reconsider and think more deeply after the conversation was over.
"I wonder who that benefits."
Hazou. Hazou was the one who benefited. Not a doubt in my mind.
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- The Void
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- She/Her
So trying to put some training plans together for Hazō and we have lots of options.
We can get sealing 21 for 63 exp
We can get deception 25 for 51 exp
We can get technique hacking 11 for 66 exp
We Can get diplomacy 14 for 69 exp
For only 23 exp we can get stealth 30 when using skywalkers
Roki 14 cost 60 exp
Personally recommend stealth technique hacking and diplomacy as most viable options
We can get sealing 21 for 63 exp
We can get deception 25 for 51 exp
We can get technique hacking 11 for 66 exp
We Can get diplomacy 14 for 69 exp
For only 23 exp we can get stealth 30 when using skywalkers
Roki 14 cost 60 exp
Personally recommend stealth technique hacking and diplomacy as most viable options
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- Location
- Leeds
But thats okay because if you mix in things that sound completely crazy and your mouth peice is 'BOOM SQUISH man' it can still be hard to know what to believe.
Dissonance
Luna's Luna
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- Ginnungagap.
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- S/H/T
Jesus fuck this update was awesome.
Guys, when @eaglejarl heavily implies that nothing can go wrong in a plan and you should definitely vote for it, go balls to the wall on that shit.
Also, a few reactions. It's two hours past my bedtime, so I'm not going to check if they've been posted.
HOLY FUCK. Evidence of an observed Reality Rewrite? When God remakes the world, the PCs generally don't notice any changes.
BINGO! RESURRECTION NO JUTSU. HORCRUXES FOR EVERYONE!
Wait, I retract my prior statement about henge. It's probably just two different, but similar, techniques. Occam's Razor.
Guys, when @eaglejarl heavily implies that nothing can go wrong in a plan and you should definitely vote for it, go balls to the wall on that shit.
Also, a few reactions. It's two hours past my bedtime, so I'm not going to check if they've been posted.
HOLY FUCK. Evidence of an observed Reality Rewrite? When God remakes the world, the PCs generally don't notice any changes.
BINGO! RESURRECTION NO JUTSU. HORCRUXES FOR EVERYONE!
Wait, I retract my prior statement about henge. It's probably just two different, but similar, techniques. Occam's Razor.
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- Madness realms
I'm not 100% sold on Shikaku isn't a douche but with the new info gained it does look like he didn't want to bother with dumbing shit down. So maybe he used the story to highlight the importance of creating countermeasures for what you create which makes sense.
Now we just need to create a flak cannon seal type thing, shoot some storage seals into the air they timer unseal shrapnel or something similar and any unauthorized personel (skywalkers not in leaf skybunkers) turn into rapidly falling meat chunks. I don't think I articulated this well but you get the idea, plus we can sell this as leaf defensive tech to whomever in leaf's hierarchy
If this system works well enough we can even have these things either turn into artillery or just have them in the hands of ANBU or defense ninja to set up on the fly (from storage seals maybe) to avoid them being targets
EDIT: we could probably even have the flak ammo (Time delay shrapnel storage scrolls) coded for height gain and maybe radius a couple colours in a row to indicate the time delay or height gain if pointed up, then another color for size of the deadly radius, finally a third color for any special type of thing being unsealed (Metal shards, napalm, poison lethal or otherwise).
Potentially we might be able to design an inverse barrier seal that creates a capture bubble allowing leaf to capture the Air raiders
Now we just need to create a flak cannon seal type thing, shoot some storage seals into the air they timer unseal shrapnel or something similar and any unauthorized personel (skywalkers not in leaf skybunkers) turn into rapidly falling meat chunks. I don't think I articulated this well but you get the idea, plus we can sell this as leaf defensive tech to whomever in leaf's hierarchy
If this system works well enough we can even have these things either turn into artillery or just have them in the hands of ANBU or defense ninja to set up on the fly (from storage seals maybe) to avoid them being targets
EDIT: we could probably even have the flak ammo (Time delay shrapnel storage scrolls) coded for height gain and maybe radius a couple colours in a row to indicate the time delay or height gain if pointed up, then another color for size of the deadly radius, finally a third color for any special type of thing being unsealed (Metal shards, napalm, poison lethal or otherwise).
Potentially we might be able to design an inverse barrier seal that creates a capture bubble allowing leaf to capture the Air raiders
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- USA
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- He/Him
I read that, yeah. Great story, would definitely recommend.
Haven't read this, but I'll check it out.
Yeah I realized that as I climbed into bed, sorry for that. Presumably you went back and asked him about it later, so you do know the answer. The others aren't around right now but we'll get you an answer as soon as we can confer.
It is definitely okay for you to go out and about, though.
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- Yes.
DO NOT
WE DO NOT WANT THIS TO BECOME CANON
PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
WE DO NOT WANT THIS TO BECOME CANON
DO NOT
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- Snakesden
AAA, so good!
It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you.
There's probably a bit of pareidolia and bias-towards-scariness going on here, though, yeah.
LUPCHANZ!
Seriously, though, I'm glad Keiko's able to take this like "yep, I'm one of those" rather than "Jiraiya of the Sannin is disappointed in me, I have let down my team once again, I Am A Failure".
...That harried-husband bit is doing a lot to get the team comfortable with J, isn't it.
("Yes, dear, it's a very clever ploy that you came up with all by yourself and could stop any time you wanted."
"Godsdamnit, woman!")
LUPCHA-
Hm.
I've got my eyes on you.
It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you.
There's probably a bit of pareidolia and bias-towards-scariness going on here, though, yeah.
LUPCHANZ!
Seriously, though, I'm glad Keiko's able to take this like "yep, I'm one of those" rather than "Jiraiya of the Sannin is disappointed in me, I have let down my team once again, I Am A Failure".
...That harried-husband bit is doing a lot to get the team comfortable with J, isn't it.
("Yes, dear, it's a very clever ploy that you came up with all by yourself and could stop any time you wanted."
"Godsdamnit, woman!")
LUPCHA-
Hm.
I've got my eyes on you.
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- USA
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- He/Him
Oh, man. That would have been my most epic troll ever. Pity I was so dang tired last night.
And yes, if you thought I was trolling you that hard then the giant orange was definitely warranted.
EDIT: I missed that I had Cariyaga's quote in multiquote and originally post this below his with no response to yours. That was a braino in my part, sorry.
EDIT: There is no reason that Hazou knows, no. Kagome and Jiraiya have been very nervous about the idea but based on what they know about his bloodline they aren't willing to completely shut him down.
Note that things really have been getting better over the last few centuries. The Warring Clans Period was awful.
He flipped through it to get all the seals into Iron Nerve, but he didn't have time to read it yet.
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- Location
- Phoenix, AZ
DRAW ALL THE BLANKS!
RANDOM-INFUSE ALL THE SEALS!
HAVE ALL THE FUN!
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- Madness realms
Can I get a link to this plan? I have read a fair bit of this quest and the assorted posts but i generally skip over plan posts so I don't know which plan wins or not
Click on the title link on the top of the update.
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- Phoenix, AZ
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- Madness realms
Thank you